A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts
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Isogloss map for 'big'
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'big' occurrences per year
Year |
Occurences normalised per million |
Total occurrences |
2000 |
297.36 |
17 |
2001 |
666.31 |
51 |
2002 |
676.02 |
51 |
2003 |
494.94 |
74 |
2004 |
418.06 |
44 |
2005 |
573.68 |
39 |
2006 |
1,218.14 |
105 |
2007 |
487.01 |
45 |
2008 |
585.38 |
46 |
2009 |
405.51 |
33 |
2010 |
757.71 |
89 |
2011 |
344.40 |
50 |
2012 |
553.07 |
74 |
2013 |
1,263.08 |
94 |
2014 |
755.79 |
130 |
2015 |
468.72 |
61 |
2016 |
472.73 |
72 |
2017 |
941.96 |
137 |
2018 |
526.48 |
41 |
2019 |
872.75 |
84 |
2020 |
1,570.09 |
533 |
2021 |
1,086.96 |
511 |
2022 |
608.99 |
133 |
2023 |
583.95 |
57 |
2024 |
346.21 |
5 |
'big' overall change in the 21st century
Normalised occurrences 2000 to 2012:-
566.74
Normalised occurrences 2013 to 2024:-
934.38